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Director:
Keita Amemiya
Writers:
Keita Amemiya (writer)
Satoshi Kitahara (screenplay)
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Genre:
Action | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Once Upon a Time... In the Distant Future... more
Plot:
A man's body and soul are stolen and used as part of a demon castle. What's left becomes Cyber Ninja... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Reminiscent of "Star Wars," my butt more (5 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Hanbei Kawai ... Akagi
Hiroki Ida ... Jiromaru
Eri Morishita ... Princess Saki
Makoto Yokoyama ... Shiranui
Fuyukichi Maki ... Kajiwara
Masaaki Emori ... Dark Overlord
Shôhei Yamamoto ... Raimei Dark Bishop
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Satou Anada ... Young Warrior
Chikara Aragaki ... Young Warrior
Satoshi Itô ... Hiu-Kaku / voice of Shiranui
Hajime Iwasaki ... Young Warrior
Hiroaki Mita ... Shoki (voice)
Kaori Nitami ... Woman Warrior
Hiromi Saitô ... Woman Warrior
Hideki Sasaki ... Ninja-Roid (voice)
Kiichirou Tai ... Young Warrior
Mizuho Yoshida ... Shoki
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cyber Ninja (USA)
Future Ninja (literal English title)
Robo Ninja (UK) (video title)
Warlord (Canada: English title) (video title)
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Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Colour:
Colour
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
UK:15
Company:
Graphical Corporation Crowd Inc. more

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Reminiscent of "Star Wars," my butt, 14 October 2002
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Author: craigjclark from Haddonfield, NJ

Ahh, "Cyber Ninja," where to begin with you?

I got to see this movie at a gaming convention during a weekend-long program wherein a group of people in lab coats showed B-movies to test subjects and then monitored them, keeping track of who said the most funny comments during the movies. Sound familiar? If you're a fan of MST3K, it should. And if you can track down a copy of this movie, you'll probably be able to come up with as many riffs as I did.

I realize I haven't said anything about the movie yet, but that's just as well. The more you discover for yourself as you watch, the more brazen and outlandish the whole thing becomes. Suffice to say, it's a Japanese rip-off of "Star Wars" with "Power Rangers"-type villains and some of the silliest-looking ninja I've ever seen in my life. (Once you see how the mecha-ninja get around, you'll know what I'm talking about.)

Calling this movie "reminiscent of 'Star Wars'" -- as somebody did in the blurb on the front of the box -- is amusing since it's set in a quasi-futuristic feudal Japan (with laser guns and sword battles existing side-by-side), and "Star Wars" itself is "reminiscent" of Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" (i.e. Lucas stole characters and plot points wholesale from it). Does that make this a second generation rip-off? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I think it does.

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